JP2582677B2 - Bill collection and delivery device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill collecting and dispensing apparatus for collecting bills inserted in a plurality of bill processing apparatuses by a transport device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a prior art prior to the present invention, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 1-174348 (B65H5 / 02) discloses:
In a game facility in which two rows of amusement table rows consisting of a plurality of rows are arranged in a back-to-back state with a gap, bills are received between each amusement table in a vertical position, and true cancer of the accepted bills, A bill processing machine with a built-in identification unit is arranged in a vertical position, and the banknotes juxtaposed on the game table are clamped in the vertical position in the gap between the game table rows, and the row ends are held as they are. And a conveyer for conveying the paper money to the collecting section, which is formed by an endlessly wound belt and a group of auxiliary rollers for pressing the belt through an elastic machine. There is shown a bill collecting apparatus characterized in that a bill discharging port of a processing machine and a bill introducing port of a clamping and conveying device are communicated so that bills received in a vertical position are transferred as they are in a vertical position.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional paper money collecting apparatus, the lower paper money inserted into the paper money processing machine is merely sent to the collecting section by the transport device and stored therein.
A dedicated storage section for collected bills is required. In addition, since the bill dispensing device is mainly used for currency exchange, a storage unit for storing upper bills and a storage unit for storing lower bills for dispensing are required. For this reason, there is a problem that the collection of the collected bills and the replenishment of the paid-out bills have to be performed manually, which is troublesome.

[0004] In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a bill collecting and dispensing apparatus for using collected bills as dispensing bills.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems A plurality of amusement tables arranged in two rows in a back-to-back manner with a gap therebetween are disposed between the amusement tables, and the authenticity of a bill inserted when using the amusement tables is determined. A bill processing machine for discriminating and receiving the bills, a bill transport device disposed between the islands of these amusement table rows, and transporting the bills processed by the bill processing machine to one end of the island, and the bills being transported. The bill collecting and dispensing machine is provided at the end of the island where the bills are collected, and collects the bills and pays out the collected bills for the exchange of higher-order bills. In addition, a body provided with a payout port for bills large enough to collectively pay out currency exchange bills at the lower part of the front face, and a pair of upper and lower sides provided with left and right side edges of bills entering the machine through the bill take-in port. Paper with a rotating belt A banknote take-in means for horizontally pulling in one sheet at a time, a banknote storage which is installed below the banknote take-in means, and in which the taken-in banknotes are inserted from above and stacked and housed, and usually the banknote take-up means While waiting at the upper position, at the time of operation, a first movable up and down movable for lowering and taking in the taken-in banknotes while passing through the space between the rotating belts of the banknote taking-in unit from the banknote taking-in unit to the banknote storage. Stack plate and the first stack plate, and has a passage therethrough, and presses from above at the periphery of the frame portion of the passage to press down the whole banknote group in the bill storage to the inside of the bill storage. One by one from the lowest one by the friction of the inserted vertically movable second stack plate and the payout roller that rotates the banknotes cooperatively from the lower part of the banknote storage box. And the exchange bill feeding means for feeding forward only drawer exchange number of sheets,
It is arranged lower than the bill storage in front of the bill storage,
The bills sent by the exchange bill sending means are stocked by the number of exchanges, and the bills are dispensed from the payout port so that the stocks of the stocked exchanges can be paid out from the payout port. is there.

[0006]

According to the bill collecting and dispensing device of the present invention, the lower bill inserted in the bill processing device is conveyed to the collecting portion by the transport device, stored in the storing portion of the dispensed bill, and used for exchange of the upper bill. . As described above, the banknote is recycled.

[0007]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 show a game machine such as a pachinko machine or a slot machine, which includes a plurality of game machines 1 and a game machine 1.
And a vending machine 2 such as a ball lending machine or a medal lending machine provided on the side of the amusement island. In addition, a transport device 4 is provided behind one row of the amusement machines, that is, between the play islands 3, and the transport device 4 is connected to a bill collection and payout device 5.

FIGS. 1 and 2 show a game machine such as a pachinko machine or a slot machine. A plurality of game machines 1 and a game machine 1 are shown.
And a vending machine 2 such as a ball lending machine or a medal lending machine provided on the side of the amusement island. A transport device 4 is provided behind one row of the amusement machines, that is, between the amusement islands 3, and the transport device 4 includes a bill collecting and dispensing machine 5.
It is linked to

Next, the bill collecting and dispensing apparatus 5 will be described with reference to FIG.

[0011] The lower banknotes 6 are transported by the transporter 4 so that the lower banknotes 6 are formed in the upper bank of the banknote collection / dispensing machine 5.
When transported from 0 to the collection unit 10, a bill orientation changing mechanism (not shown) is provided in the collection unit, so that the vertically inserted banknotes are in a horizontal state and are constantly rotated by the motor 13. It is drawn into the first conveyor section 14 which is a bill taking-in means. The first conveyer section 14 is composed of a pair of rotating belts arranged in parallel on the left and right at predetermined intervals in the conveying direction of the lower banknotes 6, and pulls the lower banknotes 6 by sandwiching both longitudinal edges of the lower banknotes 6 between the rotating belts. When the lower banknotes 6 are completely drawn into the banknote collecting and dispensing machine 5 by the first conveyor unit 14 in this way, the first conveyor unit 14 is stopped by a banknote detection sensor (not shown) or the like. Then, the motor 15 is operated, and the first stack plate 16 which has been waiting above starts to descend, and the first conveyor unit 14
The lower banknote 6 held horizontally is pushed down, peeled off from the first conveyor section 14 and pushed into the storage 17.

The lower banknote 6 is located at an upper position in the storage 17.
A frame-shaped second stack plate 18 forming a passage 18a slightly smaller than the size is arranged, and the lower banknote 6 passes through the passage 18a of the second stack plate 18,
It is pushed so as to be stacked at the highest position of the stacked banknote group 6A in the storage 17. 2nd stack board 1
Reference numeral 8 denotes a weight function of the banknotes, and is pressed downward by the motor 15a to thereby cause the second stack plate 1 to move.
The entire periphery of the banknote group 6A is pressed down at the periphery of the frame portion 8.

In this manner, the transported lower bills 6 are all stored in the storage 17 so as to be pushed from above, and are prepared to be used as payout bills.

Next, the bill dispensing section 12 will be described.

At the lower part of the storage 17, the lower bills 6 are pulled out one by one from the storage 17 and sent to the bill dispenser 12.
Dispensing rubber rollers 19a, 19
b, a currency bill feeding means comprising 19c is provided
When the dispensing rubber roller 19a is rotated by the motor 20, the dispensing rubber roller 19b with the belt is rotated, and the dispensing rubber roller 19c is also dispensed with the dispensing rubber roller 1c.
It rotates frictionally with 9a. Note that the dispensing rubber roller 1
9a is provided with a rubber member 19d in a part of the periphery thereof, and one rotation of the payout rubber roller 19a pulls out the lower bill 6 one by one between the rubber member 19d and the payout rubber roller 19c. Accordingly, the lowermost banknote 6 of the lowermost layer is pulled out one by utilizing the friction of the payout rubber roller 19b, and the leading ends thereof are paid out by the payout rubber roller 19a and the payout rubber roller 19b.
c and pull it out further. Lower Banknote 6 withdrawn
Are stocked in the exchange number stock section 22 by the conveyor roller 21. In this case, the exchange number stock 22
It substantially constitutes a bill payout section . Therefore, when exchanging the upper bills 10,000 or 5,000 yen, the payout rubber rollers 19a, 19
b, 19c and the conveyor roller 21 continue to operate,
When the sensor (not shown) determines that the payout number has reached the predetermined number, the operation is stopped. As a result, the lower-order banknotes 6 are accumulated in the exchange number stock unit 22 for the predetermined number of exchanges. Thereafter, the paper is conveyed by the payout conveyor section 23, and is provided on the front surface at a position lower than the bill inlet.
All the exchange bills are paid out to the payout port 24. 25
Denotes a drive motor for the delivery conveyor unit 23.

As described above, the bill collecting and dispensing machine of the present invention
In 5, the lower bill 6 drawn by the vending machine 2 such as a pachinko machine or the like is conveyed by the conveying device 4 and drawn into the collection unit 10. Since the lower bill 6 can be used as a payout bill at the time of currency exchange, the lower bill 6 is recycled. Therefore, the labor for collecting or replenishing the lower bill 6 and the upper bill 11 can be saved. In addition, the bill enters the bill collecting and dispensing machine 5, and the bill
One by one is stored in the storage 17, then the money exchange stock section
When the bill is sent out and paid out, the movement of the bill
Because it is only in the front and rear direction and there is no movement orthogonal to it,
The width direction size of the bill collecting and dispensing machine 5 can be reduced.

The present invention is not limited to the amusement machine 1 as shown in FIG. 3, but may be applied to a vending machine 1A for beverages, foods, tobacco and the like.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the bill collecting and dispensing apparatus performs a bill recycling operation, it is possible to save labor for collecting or replenishing bills by hand. The process of collecting and paying out bills is
Since the bill is made only by moving forward,
Small bill collecting and dispensing machine with small law
Become. Therefore, it is provided at the end of two rows of pachinko game machines.
This bill collecting and dispensing machine does not protrude greatly into the passage
Swelling, benefits and in-store space that do not impede traffic
It can be expected that the resources can be used effectively.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a top view of Yu-Gu Island.

FIG. 2 is a front view of Yu-Gi-jima.

FIG. 3 is a top view of a vending machine group.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing an internal configuration of the bill collecting and dispensing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2A banknote processing device 4 transport device 5 banknote collection and dispensing device 6 lower banknote 10 collection unit 11 upper banknote 12 banknote dispensing unit

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Eisaku Yoneda 7, Suzukawa, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa Japan, Inspector Oizumi Co., Ltd. Toshimichi Komine (56) References JP-A-3-242187 (JP, A) JP-A-2 243440 (JP, A) JP-A-1-220656 (JP, A)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] Claims 1. A plurality of game consoles arranged in two rows in a back-to-back manner with a gap therebetween are disposed between the game consoles, and the authenticity of a bill inserted when using the game consoles is determined and received. A banknote handling machine, a banknote transporting device disposed between the islands of the amusement table, and transporting the banknotes processed by the banknote handling machine to one end of the island, and an island from which the banknote is transported. A bill collecting and dispensing machine is provided on the end side, which collects bills and pays out the collected bills for exchange of higher-order bills. And a pair of upper and lower rotating belts disposed on the left and right sides of both sides of the bill that has entered the inside of the machine through the bill take-in port. And hold the bills with water A bill taking-in means for drawing in flatly, and a bill storage which is installed below the bill taking-in means and in which the taken-in bills are inserted from above and stacked and stored, and usually stands by at a position above the bill taking-in means A vertically movable first stack plate for lowering and taking in the banknotes that have been taken down while passing through the space between the rotating belts of the banknote take-up means during operation and receiving the banknotes from the banknote take-up means; The first stack plate has a passage, and is movable up and down inserted in the bill storage in order to press down the entire banknote group in the bill storage by pressing from above at the periphery of the frame portion of the passage. The second stack plate and the payout roller rotating cooperatively from the lower part of the banknote storage box by the friction of the payout roller sequentially pull out one by one from the bottom one by one. Exchange bill sending means for sending out only forward, and disposed lower than the bill storage in front of the bill storage, and the bills sent out by the exchange bill sending means are stocked by the number of exchanges, and this stock is stored. A bill collecting and dispensing device, comprising: a bill dispensing unit capable of dispensing bills corresponding to the number of exchanged sheets from the dispensing port at a time.